California College of Arts and Crafts Archives, 1907-2003

Collection context

Summary

Title:
California College of Arts and Crafts archives
Dates:
1907-2003
Creators:
California College of Arts and Crafts
Abstract:
The School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1907 by Frederick Meyer to provide an education for artists and designers that would integrate both theory and practice in the arts. In 1936 the school was renamed the California College of Arts and Crafts. Meyer remained president until his retirement in 1944. In 2003 the school was renamed California College of the Arts. The CCAC Archives is the repository for: a) materials emanating from college, including academic and administrative departments, satellite units, and student groups; b) materials about the college and its activities from other sources; and c) materials about faculty and alumni, although the working papers of faculty and alumni are collected only selectively.
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

California College of Arts and Crafts archives. California College of the Arts, Simpson Library, San Francisco CA 94107.

Background

Scope and content:

Published and unpublished material in the form of posters, postcards, catalogs, handbooks, newsletters, periodicals, announcements, recorded lectures, audiovisual material, web screen shots, documentary photographs, press releases, memorabilia, promotional items, minutes, reports, correspondence, etc.

Acquisition information:
Several different donors donated the California College of Art materials to the college over time. Alumni, faculty and departments within the College generally donate materials held by the College Archives.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Date Prepared:
© 2011
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid created by California Digital Library. Date of source: June 6, 2011.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open by appointment for advanced scholarly research.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish materials must be submitted in writing to the college. Any permission for publication, reproduction, or quotation is granted on behalf of the holding institution as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the user.

Preferred citation:

California College of Arts and Crafts archives. California College of the Arts, Simpson Library, San Francisco CA 94107.

Location of this collection:
Simpson Library
145 Hooper Street
San Francisco, CA 94107, US
Contact:
(415) 703-9574